![[Saint Luke the Evangelist]](http://saints.sqpn.com/wp-content/gallery/saint-luke-the-evangelist/saint-luke-the-evangelist-18.jpg "101kb jpg detail from a fresco of Saint Luke, Vincenzo Foppa, 1510s, San Maurizio al Monstero Maggiore, Milan, Italy")
- 18 October
- 9 May (translation of relics)
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Born to pagan Greek parents, and possibly a slave. One of the earliest converts to Christianity. Physician, studying in Antioch and Tarsus. Probably travelled as a ship‘s doctor; many charitable societies of physicians are named for him. Legend has that he was also a painter who may have done portraits of Jesus and Mary, but none have ever been correctly or definitively attributed to him; this story, and the inspiration his Gospel has always given artists, led to his patronage of them. He met Saint Paul the Apostle at Troas, and evangelized Greece and Rome with him, being there for the shipwreck and other perils of the voyage to Rome, and stayed in Rome for Paul‘s two years of in prison. Wrote the Gospel According to Luke, much of which was based on the teachings and writings of Paul, interviews with early Christians, and his own experiences. Wrote a history of the early Church in the Acts of the Apostles.
Born
- at Antioch
- c.74 in Greece
- some stories say he was martyred, others that he died of natural causes
- relics at Padua, Italy
Name Meaning
- bringer of light (= luke)
- artists
- bachelors
- bookbinders
- brewers
- butchers
- doctors
- glass makers
- glassworkers
- gold workers
- goldsmiths
- lacemakers
- lace workers
- notaries
- painters
- physicians
- sculptors
- stained glass workers
- surgeons
- unmarried men
- Worshipful Company of Painters
- —
- Capena, Italy
- Hermersdorf, Germany
- physicians
- bishop
- book
- brush (refers to the tradition that he was a painter)
- man accompanied by a winged ox
- man painting an icon of Blessed Virgin Mary
- ox
- palette (refers to the tradition that he was a painters)
- winged calf
- winged ox
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Additional Information
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Encyclopedia, by C Aherene
- Christian Biographies, by James Keifer
- Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
- Encyclopedia Brittanica
- Lives of Illustrious Men, by Saint Jerome
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Patron Saint of the Worshipful Company of Painters, by Walter Hayward Pitman
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
- Relics of Saint Luke the Evangelist Found in Padua
- Roman Martyrology
- Wikipedia
MLA Citation
- “Saint Luke the Evangelist“. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 May 2013. Web. 18 June 2013. <>